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The nation is falling apart due to stupidity Tom Send a noteboard - 22/09/2015 02:57:18 PM

If you look at the most popular candidates in each party's primary, you see that they are ignoring logic to make populist arguments that appeal to peoples' emotions. When more conventional candidates try to point out logical flaws, they are berated as being defeatist insiders or worse, as "intellectuals". People are starting to not know how much they don't know, which is another step down the road to Idiocracy.

I am supplementing my children's education at home with real, substantive education. We read books on science and history, I get out the Atlas to show maps and teach geography and my 6-year-old is learning Latin. I explained the accusative case and she never made a mistake once. We added the genitive case a few days later and are moving slowly but with marked progress.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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I don't understand education priorities - 22/09/2015 04:21:44 AM 784 Views
The nation is falling apart due to stupidity - 22/09/2015 02:57:18 PM 565 Views
It amazes me how many parents don't seem to think they have a role in thier children's education - 22/09/2015 05:44:33 PM 501 Views
Accelerated Reader! - 22/09/2015 08:37:33 PM 547 Views
Re: Accelerated Reader! - 23/09/2015 01:18:37 AM 612 Views
It doesn't necessarily follow that education is getting worse, though. - 22/09/2015 06:22:31 PM 609 Views
But it has. College is now teaching what high school should have. - 22/09/2015 09:00:20 PM 688 Views
I'll take your word for that, but... - 22/09/2015 11:02:28 PM 546 Views
Re: It doesn't necessarily follow that education is getting worse, though. - 23/09/2015 02:03:03 AM 494 Views
To some extent - not entirely - it's just that the ideas of general knowledge were different. - 23/09/2015 06:25:36 PM 572 Views
You keep making this error in your logic. - 23/09/2015 07:44:00 PM 482 Views
Johnny can't read is hardly new - 28/09/2015 05:25:29 PM 512 Views
It's more symptomatic, IMO - 26/09/2015 05:49:12 PM 502 Views
We agree on most things, then. Good. - 26/09/2015 11:09:40 PM 446 Views
German? - 27/09/2015 03:21:51 PM 505 Views
Do you have the full statistics? That'd be interesting. - 27/09/2015 04:59:40 PM 469 Views
Can you list those language choices? - 28/09/2015 07:21:37 AM 533 Views
Wait, who is that a question to? - 28/09/2015 06:38:20 PM 475 Views
You. - 28/09/2015 08:05:54 PM 627 Views
Oh. I couldn't tell you exactly. - 28/09/2015 08:39:53 PM 516 Views
My local High School only offers Spanish and French - 28/09/2015 05:34:27 PM 476 Views
Indeed. - 27/09/2015 11:41:07 PM 441 Views
My experience is similar. - 02/10/2015 09:14:58 PM 450 Views
That 43% is another BS survey result - 28/09/2015 04:36:51 PM 486 Views

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